MARQUETTE, MI-- The driver of a vehicle involved in a fatal accident near Marquette Mountain last month faces four felonies.
Brianna Jacobson, 21, is charged with operating while intoxicated causing death, 2nd-degree child abuse and two counts of operating while intoxicated causing serious injury.
Jacobson was the driver of a southbound vehicle that hit a northbound vehicle on M-553 on October 23. Andrew Auston, 25, was ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene. A 4-year-old boy was taken to UPHS-Marquette, then transferred to Motts Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor, where he’s still being treated. A 28-year-old Marquette man was treated at UPHS-Marquette and eventually released.
No one in the northbound vehicle was injured.
Jacobson remains lodged in the Marquette County Jail on a $10,000 bond.
